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The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen
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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen
If you’re tired of being gaslit by corporate media, sick of shallow hot takes, and ready for fearless truth delivered with wit, fire, and facts, Wake Up America is your daily briefing for the battle of ideas.
Hosted by Austin Petersen — former presidential candidate, media entrepreneur, and unapologetic defender of liberty — this high-energy political talk show cuts through the noise with bold analysis, sharp humor, and evidence-driven commentary.
Every episode delivers:
• Hard-hitting breakdowns of the day’s biggest political headlines
• Libertarian-leaning, America-First perspective grounded in facts
• Deep dives into economics, culture, foreign policy, and constitutional principles
• Interviews with lawmakers, policy experts, journalists, and rising voices
• Rapid-fire solo segments that blend history, philosophy, and modern politics
This isn’t performative outrage. It’s strategic thinking for people who care about Western civilization, individual liberty, and limited government.
Austin brings a unique mix of nationalist instinct and libertarian economics — defending free markets, calling out corruption on the right and left, challenging reckless foreign policy, exposing government overreach, and defending American values without apology.
Expect:
🔥 Breaking news analysis
📊 Real data and receipts
🎙 Smart, pointed interviews
⚔ Culture war clarity
📚 Historical context that actually matters
Whether the topic is Congress, the Supreme Court, Big Tech censorship, immigration, economic chaos, global conflicts, or the internal battles within the conservative movement — Wake Up America gives you the tools to understand what’s happening and why it matters.
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Food Stamp Rolls Decline - Welfare Queens Revolt!
Jun 1001:56:18Tap to summarizeTHEY CALLED REAGAN A RACIST FOR CALLING FOR WELFARE REFORM. THE USDA JUST FOUND 244,000 DEAD PEOPLE STILL ON THE ROLLS. Reagan described the fraud in 1976 and the press called it fantasy for fifty years — today we trace the line from Linda Taylor's Cadillac to the Roman grain dole to 4.3 million off the SNAP rolls and explain why what Brooke Rollins just did is something no Roman emperor ever managed. Then we take the Wall Street Journal's story calling North Korea the world's most surprising economic success story and run it through the same template Lloyd George used when he rode the autobahn in 1936 and came home calling Hitler the George Washington of Germany. Camellia from Americans for Prosperity Missouri joins us on Pete Hegseth landing Mormons outside the Christian column while erasing atheist and pagan service members entirely. Gerard Michaels is here on Henry Nowak — the eighteen-year-old stabbed five times in Southampton who died in handcuffs because his killer played the race card and the officers cuffed the dying man instead of the man with the knife. 🪙 244,000 DEAD RECIPIENTS. LAMBORGHINI OWNERS ON SNAP. A MILLIONAIRE WHO QUALIFIED WITH A BROCHURE. ONE IN FOUR DOLLARS GOING TO FRAUD. WE TRACE THE WHOLE LINE. 🌏 THE WSJ CALLED NORTH KOREA AN ECONOMIC SUCCESS STORY. LLOYD GEORGE SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT HITLER'S GERMANY. THE REGIMES CHANGE. THE HEADLINE NEVER DOES. ⛪ HEGSETH PUT MORMONS OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN COLUMN AND ERASED ATHEIST, HUMANIST, AND PAGAN SERVICE MEMBERS ENTIRELY. CAMELLIA FROM AFP MISSOURI JOINS US. 🔪 HENRY NOWAK DIED IN HANDCUFFS WHILE HIS KILLER WALKED FREE. GERARD MICHAELS ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COUNTRY TRAINS ITS COPS TO DO THAT. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Gerard Michaels — @GerardvsEvil 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🗣️ 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #4Liberty #SNAP #FoodStamps #Reagan #WelfareReform #NorthKorea #Hegseth #HenryNowak #RomanHistory #Annona #BrookeRollins #MenWithoutWork #OBBBA #Libertarian #LibertyNews #PoliticalCommentary
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How to Spot The Modern-Day Political Charlatan
Jun 802:11:53Tap to summarizeTHE REPUBLIC HAS ALWAYS HAD CHARLATANS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE NOW IS THEY HAVE PODCASTS, CABLE NEWS CONTRACTS, AND MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS. Today on Wake Up America, we trace the charlatan problem from the founding era to the modern media machine. Dr. Benjamin Church spied for the British. Benedict Arnold was grifting before West Point. The Conway Cabal tried to remove George Washington through anonymous attacks. James Wilkinson commanded the U.S. Army while secretly taking Spanish money. Then we bring the pattern forward to Hunter Biden, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Scott Pelley, Ro Khanna, and the modern system that rewards the costume long after the record has fallen apart. 🇺🇸 The first American traitor, Benedict Arnold’s long road from hero to fraud, and the founding-era system that survived because Washington held 🕵️ The Conway Cabal, James Wilkinson, stolen credit, backroom plots, and America’s first political hit jobs 🎙️ Hunter Biden, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Scott Pelley, Ro Khanna, and the modern charlatan machine 🔥 Jon Miltimore joins to break down Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and the Los Angeles mayor’s race 🇺🇸 Taylor Burks joins to talk Missouri’s new Fifth District, Amendment 5, tax reform, Bitcoin, and the August 4th primary Guests: @Miltimore79 @TaylorWBurks Watch Wake Up America live weekdays 7–9AM CT: https://rumble.com/AP4Liberty Support the show: https://wakeupamericashow.com/support Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection: https://4libertyshop.com Get the free Expat Money report: https://expatmoney.com/worldwar3 4Liberty Network: https://4libertynetwork.com #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #4LibertyNetwork #Charlatans #AmericanRevolution #BenedictArnold #TuckerCarlson #CandaceOwens #HunterBiden #RoKhanna #ScottPelley #LosAngeles #Missouri #MO5 #Bitcoin #Liberty #Politics
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Missouri or Misery? A Guide for Midwestern Summer Vacation
Jun 502:05:01Tap to summarizeMISSOURI OR MISERY? A MIDWESTERNERS GUIDE TO THE BEAUTIFUL SHOW-ME STATE Five acts dropped from the Freedom 250 Mall concert in 24 hours. The same artists had no problem performing for Obama. Vanilla Ice is performing anyway and doesn't understand what the problem is. Plus: the case for Missouri as America's most underrated summer vacation, the Everything Tax on Missouri's August ballot, and a welfare check on Shawn Ryan after he spent three hours blackpilling Megyn Kelly on his own podcast. 🎤 AMERICA TURNS 250 — The social media mob declared celebrating America's birthday a career-ending association. Martina McBride sang in the Obama White House without a second thought. Vanilla Ice doesn't vote, doesn't care, and is performing June 26th. His mom is proud of him. 🗺️ MISSOURI OR MISERY — Wild horses in the Ozarks protected by an act of Congress. The first federally protected river in American history. A ruined Gilded Age castle on a cliff above a lake. A quarry in Rolla with Caribbean-blue water and a 65-foot slide. The wine country that saved France and built Napa Valley. The French put up statues. Everyone else calls it flyover country. ⚖️ AMENDMENT 5: THE EVERYTHING TAX — Missouri's August ballot measure creates a pathway to eliminate the income tax through expanded sales taxes. The state auditor can't tell voters how high taxes could go. Camellia from Americans for Prosperity breaks it down. 🎙️ SHAWN RYAN'S BLACKPILL SESSION — Ryan admitted on his own show he is "blackpilled," ran through a printed list of Trump grievances, and called core MAGA "pedophiles supporting the Israeli lobby." Tom Pappert joins us to assess the damage. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — Americans for Prosperity Missouri | @RareCamellia 🎙️ Tom Pappert | @realTomPappert 🛒 Rep the movement: 4LibertyShop.com 💰 Protect your wealth offshore: expatmoney.com/worldwar3 📡 Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com 🔥 Become a member: wakeupamericashow.com/support 📺 Watch live on Rumble: rumble.com/ap4liberty Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com Become a member: wakeupamericashow.com/support Watch on Rumble: rumble.com/ap4liberty #WakeUpAmerica #4Liberty #Freedom250 #VanillaIce #America250 #MissouriOrMisery #Missouri #Amendment5 #EverythingTax #ShawnRyan #MegynKelly #Blackpilled #DelaneyhHall #LibertyMovement #Ozarks
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Voter Fraud in LA? Spencer Pratt’s Voter Vibe Shift
Jun 402:01:09Tap to summarizeIT'S FREEDOM FAMILY FRIDAY This week's Freedom Family Friday covers six stories that the mainstream media either buried, botched, or refused to ask the second question on. From a professor who wants to infect you with ticks to make you vegan, to Shawn Ryan's three-hour blackpill session with Megyn Kelly, to the ballot counting in Los Angeles that just keeps going — we break down what's actually happening and why it matters. 🦟 A Western Michigan professor published a peer-reviewed paper arguing society has a moral DUTY to spread tick-borne disease to stop people from eating meat. The paper is real. So is our response. ⚖️ A viral X trend about women still in contact with their "ex rapist" raises the conversation nobody wants to have about due process, false allegations, and the men who lose everything before a single charge is filed. 🧬 A YouTuber with four million subscribers announced he terminated his pregnancy over a Down syndrome diagnosis — and opened up the eugenics question America refuses to answer honestly. 🗳️ Polls closed Tuesday in Los Angeles. It is Thursday. Only 62% of the vote is counted. California law allows mail-in ballots to arrive seven days after election day. Late ballots break left. They always do. 🎙️ Sharon Stone went on a podcast and told a 25-year-old story about her ex-husband walking out of a doctor's appointment. The internet delivered its verdict in four minutes. We have a few questions. 😮💨 Shawn Ryan declared himself fully blackpilled on the entire American political system in a three-hour session with Megyn Kelly. His grievances are largely factual. What he did with them is the problem. HOSTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Austin Petersen @AP4Liberty 🎙️ Steffi Petersen @SteffiP4Liberty Shop the merch: 4LibertyShop.com Get off the dollar: expatmoney.com/wworldwar3 Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #LibertyMovement #ElectionIntegrity #DueProcess #DownSyndrome #Eugenics #ShawnRyan #SharonStone #SpencerPratt #CaliforniaElection #AlphaGal #Bioethics #Blackpill #Milei #Rumble
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Anti-White Racism Killed Henry Nowak: Feat. @TheJadeWarwick & @Judgenap
Jun 401:57:30Tap to summarizeBRITISH POLICE HANDCUFFED A DYING TEENAGER ON THE WORD OF HIS KILLER. Full coverage of the Henry Nowak murder, verdict, and courtroom confrontation — plus America's 250th anniversary restoration push, Rubio's Munich speech, Judge Napolitano on the Gitmo case that's been running for 15 years with no trial date, and Jade Warwick on the policing culture that made Southampton possible. ⚰️ Henry Nowak — the murder, the bodycam footage, the one-day verdict, and what "I can't breathe" means when a white boy says it ⚖️ The trial — a "convincing but wholly false" defense, buried sentencing remarks, and a family that screamed "racist" at the victim's parents in open court 🗡️ The knife and the law — what the murder weapon actually was, what the kirpan exemption actually covers, and why the misreporting threatens people who did nothing wrong 🦅 America 250 — the Columbus fountain runs again, $54.2 million in NPS restorations, the Great American State Fair, and Rubio's Munich speech 🔒 Gitmo — 15 years, 5 judges, 183 waterboardings, and a confession the government doesn't know if it can use GUESTS THIS EPISODE ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano — @JudgeNap 🎙️ Jade Warwick — @TheJadeWarwick 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 💰 expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #HenryNowak #TwoTierPolicing #America250 #Gitmo #KhalidShaikhMohammed #MarcoRubio #Kirpan #Hampshire #AP4Liberty #Rumble #LibertyNews #BreakingNews #JudgeNapolitano
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Why Spencer Pratt is the Answer To LA’s Woes
Jun 301:57:58Tap to summarizeLOS ANGELES IS VOTING TODAY, PRIDE MONTH IS HERE, AND A WOMAN FACEPLANTED RUNNING FROM A BISON. Los Angeles is voting, Pride Month just started, a woman faceplanted running from a bison, and Devon Eriksen is here to talk Heinlein. Full show today. 🦬 A woman walked up to a 2,000-pound bison at Yellowstone and faceplanted running away from it. We make the case for replacing the warning signs with "PET THE BUFFALO" and letting Darwin close the loop. 🏙️ Los Angeles votes today and we are fully on Spencer Pratt's side — and honest about what a 4-to-1 Democrat registration advantage means when he gets to November. 🌈 Corporate Pride sponsors are gone and the Pentagon stood down its observances. We ask whether the rollback is a real win or just moved the conversation somewhere harder to see — and make the case for veterans getting a month that actually hits. 📚 Devon Eriksen joins us on Starship Troopers, Heinlein, media literacy, and his debut novel Theft of Fire — full cast audiobook out now, not on Amazon, find it at DevonEriksen.com. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia Peterson — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Devon Eriksen — @Devon_Eriksen_ 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 💰 expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #SpencerPratt #LosAngeles #PrideMonth #Yellowstone #Darwinism #Heinlein #StarshipTroopers #TheftOfFire #LibertarianNationalism #KarenBass #FreedomFamily
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REMIGRATION: Why The Burning Of Paris Shows It’s Time
Jun 202:13:09Tap to summarize56% OF LIBERAL WOMEN ARE MENTALLY ILL. Paris burned again last night for the second year running, the libertarian movement has collapsed into an Israel obsession, and the data on liberal women's mental health is the most damning indictment of feminist ideology ever put to paper. We break it all down. 🔥 Paris riots two years straight -- 780 arrested, rioters storming police stations, and the same families burning the same streets they burned in 2005 🧠 The left's 56% mental health diagnosis rate and the therapy economy that needs the crisis to continue 🗺️ Remigration goes mainstream -- a new think tank launches in Porto while Paris burns 🎙️ Austin Padgett on how the libertarian movement traded principle for an Israel obsession and who's responsible GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Austin Padgett — @LudwigNeverMises + Jon Miltimore 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🤝 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AP4Liberty #Remigration #LiberalWomen #MentalHealth #Paris #Libertarian #France
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Why Do Libertarians Want to Live in A Third-World Country?
May 2902:00:09Tap to summarizeTHE LIBERTARIAN CASE AGAINST OPEN BORDERS, THE LP'S WORST CONVENTION IN MEMORY, AND TWO 300-FOOT STATUES THAT NEED TO GET BUILT. We break down the GLP-1 craze and why the shortcut costs more than the drug, then make the full libertarian nationalist argument on immigration — Friedman, Hoppe, Putnam, and the bacon cheeseburger. Spike Cohen joins to respond to the LPNH disaffiliation, Andrew Allgood's arrest, and the question of whether the Libertarian Party has any runway left. Camellia closes on the viral plan to build two 300-foot Lewis and Clark statues on the Missouri River and what it means for American culture. 🧪 GLP-1s, Ozempic side effects, and why the hard path is the only path ⚖️ The libertarian case against open borders — Friedman, Hoppe, and the net taxpayer argument 🗽 Bacon cheeseburger immigration policy and the third worldism trap 🎙️ Spike Cohen on the LP civil war, Kauffman, and where the liberty movement goes from here 🗿 Camellia on Lewis and Clark, the Argonath, and building great things again GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Spike Cohen — @RealSpikeCohen 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia 🛒 Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection: 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 Get your free Plan B report: expatmoney.com/WW3 🤝 Join the community: 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Libertarian #Immigration #Ozempic #GLP1 #LewisAndClark #LibertarianParty #SpikeCohen #LibertarianNationalism #Freedom #Rumble
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Why Do Anti-Zionists Team Up With Anti-Americanists?
May 2802:13:24Tap to summarizeTHE KGB INVENTED ANTI-ZIONISM AND YOUR KID'S HISTORY TEACHER ASSIGNED THE TEXTBOOK. Thomas Massie lost the most expensive House primary in history and opened his concession speech with a Tel Aviv joke while Hasan Piker mourned. We trace the sixty-year pipeline from KGB propaganda to mandatory high school reading to the libertarian movement celebrated by its own enemies. Jennifer Welch says masculinity is fascism — a Harlem pastor says the Democrats made p*ssies out of their men. Plus Judge Napolitano on Clarence Thomas's SCOTUS dissent and Naomi Brockwell on what the government is buying about you right now without a warrant. 🔥 Jennifer Welch calls masculinity fascism — and the New Yorker nodded 📊 The Catalist data: 17-point gender gap, Black men walking, Latino men gone, and a $20 million study that won't fix any of it ⛪ Pastor James David Manning of ATLAH Church on what the Democratic Party has done to men in Harlem ☭ From KGB propaganda to UN Resolution 3379 to Durban to BDS — the sixty-year pipeline that produced the Tel Aviv concession speech 📖 Howard Zinn: Communist Party member, mandatory reading, and the academic infrastructure of anti-Western civilizational attack ⚖️ Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, and the libertarian anti-Zionism road that ends with Hasan Piker as your eulogist 🏛️ Clarence Thomas dissents: the Supreme Court declined Florida's lawsuit against California and Washington without a single word of explanation 🔒 The federal government is buying your location data, your financial records, and your private communications right now — no warrant required GUESTS THIS EPISODE: ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano — @JudgeNap 🔒 Naomi Brockwell — @naomibrockwell Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection and all Wake Up America merch at 4LibertyShop.com Protect your wealth from government overreach at expatmoney.com/AUSTIN Join the 4Liberty community at 4libertynetwork.com Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support 🎟️ Join us at FreedomFest 2026 — July 8-11 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. Use code 4LIBERTY100 for $100 off your Regular Attendee or VIP Full Pass at https://tinyurl.com/FreedomFest26 #WakeUpAmerica #Masculinity #DemocraticParty #JenniferWelch #ThomasMassie #AntiZionism #HowardZinn #RedGreenAlliance #SurveillanceState #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #NaomiBrockwell #JudgeNap #FreedomFest2026 #LibertyMovement #AP4Liberty
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Hasan Piker Had It Coming: A Message for All Commies in America
May 2502:06:03Tap to summarizeHASAN PIKER WENT TO CUBA, LIVESTREAMED FROM A GENERATOR-POWERED FIVE-STAR HOTEL, AND NOW THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT IS ASKING QUESTIONS. THIS IS WHERE THE COMMUNIST LARP GETS PAPERWORK. The Communist Control Act passed the Senate 85-0 in 1954, survived in Title 50, and was built around one basic distinction: Americans can hold ugly political opinions, but organizations taking direction or support from foreign communist governments are a different legal animal. Seventy years later, Hasan Piker, CodePink, the Nuestra América Convoy, Cuba, CCP-linked influence networks, and OFAC subpoenas are dragging that old question back into the room. Today we break down the law, the money, the Cuba trip, and whether “it was just political speech” works when federal investigators start asking about sanctions, travel, logistics, and coordination with a regime on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. 🕵️ The Communist Control Act, Hubert Humphrey, Eisenhower, CPUSA, and the anti-communist law still sitting in Title 50 🌴 Hasan Piker’s Cuba trip, the Nuestra América Convoy, CodePink, luxury hotel livestreams, and “Communist Cuba” as content tourism 💰 Neville Roy Singham, pro-China funding networks, CodePink, Progressive International, and the foreign-influence machine behind modern left-wing activism ⚖️ OFAC subpoenas, Treasury scrutiny, Cuban sanctions, and the line between protected speech and material support for foreign communist governments 👞 PLUS: The Libertarian Party convention melts down over professionalism, dress codes, stolen property, and whether the liberty movement can survive the circus GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Jeremy Kauffman — @jeremykauffman Get Expat Money’s free report, 8 Countries To Escape World War III, at expatmoney.com/worldwar3 Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection and all Wake Up America merch at 4LibertyShop.com Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #HasanPiker #CommunistCuba #CodePink #Cuba #Communism #OFAC #LibertarianParty #AustinPetersen #4LibertyNetwork
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